Sewing, Crafts and other stuff

Month: April 2020

I had so much of the jelly roll fabric that I used for the Happy Jelly roll Quilt , that I made a lap quilt for myself, this time however I made it using pinwheel blocks. That´s the wonderful thing about HST, they are so versatile and can make so many different types of blocks.

This one came together quite quickly, and I only wavy quilted along the horizontal, vertical and diagonals lines of the blocks.

During this very professional photo shoot 😉 Ollie insisted on photo bombing each photo, good thing too, as it adds some interest to the photo.

And of course, Oscar, as usual, got a bit jealous and also rushed to be in one of the photos.

A while back, it´s actually been over 6 months! goodness I meant to write this post ages ago, ……anyway, I decided to give oil painting a try, a bit crazy I know, completely out of my comfort zone, but there you have it, I gave it a try.

Of course, I also went a bit crazy and used a rather large canvas, so it took a while to finish. This is all done with a palette knife, no brushes.

I must admit I´m not overly fond of it, although my husband really likes it, so I gave it to him 🙂 I decided to make a much smaller painting of a sunflower, and this one I really like.

It´s a bright sunshiny painting and always makes me happy when I look at it, I just love the sun and sunny days. Here at home the sun has just peeped out from behind the clouds, so I´m off to the garden to soak it up, before it disappears again.

Here I am

Hi there, I´m Alice, I was born in Zimbabwe, raised in South Africa and currently live in Portugal. I started this blog to share my new hobby... sewing stuff :) and to occasionally share an odd thought or two.